Chile after Pinochet: Aylwin's Christian Democrat Economic Policies for the 1990s

Hojman, David E.

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“…Navia (2008) asserts that "[e]xcept for human rights and a consolidated democracy, Chile today looks very much as Pinochet wanted" (252). As predicted by Hojman (1990), Patricio Aylwin, the first democratically elected president after Pinochet, had every intention of continuing Pinochet's economic policies. After the transition in 1990 and despite criticizing neoliberal reforms, Navia (2008) established that the ruling posttransition Concertación continued to support many of the policies within the Washington Consensus (252n5).…”

Section: Chile's Posttransition Economic Policymentioning

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Legal Reform and Good Governance: Assessing Rights and Economic Development in Chile

Tiede

2012

Law & Policy

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Legal reforms throughout Latin America have increased the transparency of the criminal justice process and improved defendants' rights. Many scholars conjecture that such reforms also improve “good governance” and by extension economic development. Paradoxically, despite such assertions, there are few quantitative studies that examine the precise effect of such legal reforms. Using original data sets, the impact of Chile's criminal law reforms on the rights of criminals and economic development is tested. The results show that Chile's criminal law reform has enhanced defendants' rights by reducing the percent of individuals incarcerated. The reform has had a positive effect on regional economic activity, but little effect on foreign direct investment at the regional level.

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Section: Chile's Posttransition Economic Policymentioning

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Legal Reform and Good Governance: Assessing Rights and Economic Development in Chile

Tiede

2012

Law & Policy

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“…More than anything, the Chilean transition reflected the desire of democratic political parties to take control from the military and move the state away from its association with repression. The capitalist economic model which the authoritarian state had implemented from 1975, which clearly favoured large domestic economic groups and international business interests (see Hojman 1990Hojman , 1995 over organised labour and the Chilean poor, was not a source of antagonism. To cater for the social impacts of market failures, the democratic administration would busy itself with a national agenda of inclusion, tolerance and equity.…”

Section: A Decade Of Transitionmentioning

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State Continuismo and Pinochetismo: The Keys to the Chilean Transition

Barton

2002

Bull Latin American Res

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There have been two parallel processes in Chilean political economy during the 1990s. A high profile has been accorded to the transition from authoritarianism to democracy and its related debates. A relatively low profile has been accorded to the continuity in the state model of capitalism that was implemented under authoritarianism. This paper argues that transition can be best understood in terms of the role of Augusto Pinochet and his strategies for maintaining power ± Pinochetismo. As such, his forced retirement from political life marks the end of transition. The second point is perhaps of more importance however. The democratic political regime has intensified the model of capitalist accumulation of the 1970s and 1980s and socio-economic polarisation has been perpetuated. While the focus on the nature of transition during the 1990s was necessary, there has been a failure to question the social relations established by capitalism. With the end of transition in July 2001, the greatest challenge for Chilean democracy now lies in creating a state based on social relations that serves the needs of the majority rather than the desires of the few.

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Continuity, Legitimacy, and Agricultural Development: Conclusions

Hojman¹

1993

Change in the Chilean Countryside

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Chile after Pinochet: Aylwin's Christian Democrat Economic Policies for the 1990s

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Legal Reform and Good Governance: Assessing Rights and Economic Development in Chile

Legal Reform and Good Governance: Assessing Rights and Economic Development in Chile

State Continuismo and Pinochetismo: The Keys to the Chilean Transition

Continuity, Legitimacy, and Agricultural Development: Conclusions

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